Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Everything that surrounds my meeting with him has the color of shame.

Collected Stories by Susan Sontag

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I should admit that I am already a little suspect of Susan Sontag’s nonfiction at time, something I will explain more in reviews on her essays and notebooks (if I get around to these), but I am deeply suspect of her fiction for ways that make a lot more sense to me as a reader. This is an odds and sods collection of short stories by Sontag who wrote four novels in 30 years, winning the National Book Award in 1999 for her novel In […]

There was death in the big room.

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It’s honestly a pretty draining prospect to read 26 Raymond Chandler stories. Here’s why: he was so remarkably consistent that the stories are thorough, thoughtful, a little repetitive–along a few common paths–, and they are long. Each of these stories is between about 45-60 pages (using Everyman Library pages at that), and so the grand total of 26 of his stories is about 1300 pages. And so I have been working on these a lot. If there were more variety, I would be more excited […]



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